His story reads like something lifted from the pages of a Carl Hiaasen novel set in the Florida Keys' smuggling heyday, when the ocean teemed with square grouper.

Court records describe clandestine runs to Jamaica in sailboats with hidden compartments, surreptitious boat sinkings to avoid detection, and stealthy caravans of gun-toting drivers heading up U.S. 1 to a Canadian...

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